Minutes of the September 26, 2001 Meeting

With the assistance of Mike LeBlanc of SCC, the Electronic Reserve User
Survey was made operational and could already collect responses. Judy
has given the URL to Bob Warwick who will work on a link from the test
WebCat. The results of the tests submitted are neatly displayed and
ordered by their date entered. The information can be exported and used
as a spreadsheet. We will conduct the survey from October 21 to
October 27. The same survey can be conducted in the future to see if
there have been significant differences.

A draft user survey on electronic journals was presented by Addie. A
discussion of the proposed questions resulted in some changes and
additions. We will present the revised survey at the November
Collection Development Council meeting. The short survey will be
conducted in February 2002 and a link to the final online survey will be
made from our e-journals web page.

A short questionnaire on Ask a Librarian will be developed by Judy and
Ann Montanaro. The questions will be discussed by the committee by
January 2002 and the survery is to be conducted before the end of the
Spring 02 semester. A message with link to the survey could be added at
the end of the answer we provide to the user, but we will also explore
other options.

Ann M. shared with the Committee the statistics on the use of netlibrary
e-books to which Rutgers has subscription . Many in this collection of
computer science and information technology have so far been used once.
The titles shown are only those that have been used more than once
within this short time period (between Sept 1-17). Also included in
the statistics are those titles that had turnaways during this time
period. Rutgers decided not to use the check-out feature, so a user can
use and "keep" an e-book if she/he moves to another page at least once
every 15 minutes.

The next Assessment Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 17, 2001.